CBMs - Curriculum Based Measurements

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Overview

CBMs are research-based tools that help us…

• rank/compare student performance against research-based norms

determining academic skill deficit.pdf

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• measure student progress in basic academic skills

determining insufficient progress.pdf

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DPS has created a bank of free CBM probes for use within the District.

DPS CBM Link

In addition, DPS has created benchmark guidelines for IEP teams to use in order to determine whether or not students are performing at/below/well below grade level expectations, to calculate students’ weekly rates of improvement, and to perform the gap analysis.


CBMs with applicable research-based norms/benchmarks can also be found on the following websites:

DIBELSNext (free)

Intervention Central (free)

(paid subscription)

(paid subscription)

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Basic Reading Skills

CBMs

DIBELS Next:

• DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (1-6)
• First Sound Fluency (K)
• Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (K-1)
• Nonsense Word Fluency (K-2)

Intervention Central:

• CBM Letter Name Fluency (K-1)
• CBM Wordlist Fluency (K-3)

AIMSweb:

• Letter Naming Fluency (K-1)
• Letter Sound Fluency (K-1)
• Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (K-1)
• Nonsense Word Fluency (K-1)
• Reading CBM (K-8)

EasyCBM:

• Passage Reading Fluency (1-8)
• Phoneme Segmenting (K-1)
• Letter Names (K-1)
• Letter Sounds (K-1)
• Word Reading Fluency (K-3)

Gap Analysis

DPS pdf spreadsheet -
DPS Excel spreadsheet -

Progress Monitoring Tools

Oral Reading Fluency Graph -
Early Literacy Graph -

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CBMs

Reading Fluency

DIBELS Next:

• DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (1-6)

AIMSweb:

• Reading CBM (K-8)

EasyCBM:

• Passage Reading Fluency (1-8)

Gap Analysis

DPS pdf spreadsheet -
DPS Excel spreadsheet -

Progress Monitoring Tools

Oral Reading Fluency (with accuracy and retell) Graph -

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CBMs

Reading Comprehension

DIBELS Next:

• DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (1-6)
• Daze (3-6)

AIMSweb:

• Reading-CBM (K-8)
• Maze-CBM (1-8)

EasyCBM:

• Passage Reading Fluency (1-8)

Gap Analysis

DPS pdf spreadsheet -
DPS Excel spreadsheet -

Progress Monitoring Tools

Oral Reading Fluency Graph -
CBM Graph (generic - use for MAZE) -

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CBMs

Written Expression

AIMSweb:

• Written Expression-CBM (1-8)
• Total Words Written
• Words Spelled Correctly
• Correct Writing Sequences
• Spelling-CBM (1-8)

Intervention Central:

• CBM Written Expression (1-8)
• Total Words Written
• Words Spelled Correctly
• Correct Writing Sequences

Denver Public Schools:

• Writing CBMs(1-8)
• Total Words Written
• Words Spelled Correctly
• Correct Writing Sequences
• Spelling CBM (1-8)

Directions for Conducting Writing CBMs
Primary Prompts
Intermediate Prompts
Advanced Prompts

Gap Analysis

DPS pdf spreadsheet -
DPS Excel spreadsheet -

Progress Monitoring Tools

Spelling Graph -

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CBMs

Mathematical Calculation

DPS Special Education CBMs:

• Math Computation CBMs (1-8) - ? minutes - awaiting clarification
• Number Identification (K-1)
• Oral Counting (K-1)

AIMSweb:

• Math Computation – M-Comp (1-8) - 8 minutes
• Oral Counting (K-1)
• Number Identification (K-1)

Intervention Central:

• CBM Math Worksheet Generator (1-8) - generally 2-minutes, although these are not normed referenced (good for measurinng growth though)
• Number Identification (K-1)

Gap Analysis

DPS pdf spreadsheet -
DPS Excel spreadsheet -

Progress Monitoring Tools

CBM Graph -

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CBMs

Mathematical Problem Solving

DPS Special Education CBMs:

• Quantity Discrimination (K-1)
• Missing Number (K-1)

AIMSweb:

• Math Concept and Applications – M-CAP (2-8) - grades 2-6 = 8 minutes; grades 7-8 = 10 minutes
• Quantity Discrimination (K-1)
• Missing Number (K-1)

Intervention Central:

• Quantity Discrimination (K-1)
• Missing Number (K-1)

Gap Analysis

DPS pdf spreadsheet -
DPS Excel spreadsheet -

Progress Monitoring Tools

CBM Graph -

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